After what John Kerry said?
"Obama boosts US effort to find warlord Kony" by Karen DeYoung | Washington Post March 24, 2014
WASHINGTON — President Obama has ordered a sharp increase in US Special Forces deployed to Uganda and sent US military aircraft there for the first time in the ongoing effort to hunt down warlord Joseph Kony across a broad swath of central Africa.
Didn't he die?
Related: Kony Kon Kollapses
It's simply a way to further expand and embed AmeriKan troops in resource-rich Africa.
At least four CV-22 Osprey aircraft will arrive in Uganda by midweek, along with refueling aircraft and about 150 Special Operations airmen to fly and maintain the planes, according to Amanda Dory, deputy assistant secretary of defense for African affairs.
The White House began to notify Congress, under the War Powers Act, of the new deployments as they began Sunday night.
This from the guy who is ending the wars.
US personnel are authorized to ‘‘provide information, advice, and assistance’’ to an African Union military task force tracking Kony and his organization, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), across Uganda, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, and Congo. They are prohibited from engaging LRA forces unless in self-defense.
We've seen this move before.
The new War Powers Act notification sets the approximate total for all US forces in Uganda at 300.
Kony, whose forces have spent years attacking central African villages, mutilating civilians, and stealing children, has been indicted by the International Criminal Court. His organization is thought to have been decimated in recent years through military action against it and defections.
If he is decimated what is with all the hardware?
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Koning their way into Africa is what it is:
"Planes give edge in hunt for Kony" by Rodney Muhumuza | Associated Press March 25, 2014
KAMPALA, Uganda — The US government’s decision to deploy military aircraft and additional troops could be ‘‘the decisive game changer’’ in the hunt for fugitive rebel leader Joseph Kony, whose notorious group, the Lord’s Resistance Army, appears weaker than ever amid growing defections and the loss of senior commanders, a researcher said Monday.
The US military aircraft will allow the anti-Kony mission to ‘‘act swiftly’’ in response to suspected LRA hiding places or attacks, said Kasper Agger, an Africa researcher with the watchdog group Enough Project.
‘‘The timing is right,’’ he said, adding that the deployment of the innovative Osprey aircraft ‘‘could be the decisive game changer in the mission to end the LRA.’’
The White House said early Monday that the United States is sending a limited number of CV-22 Osprey aircraft, refueling planes, and ‘‘associated support personnel’’ to assist African forces chasing Kony in remote parts of Central Africa.
Related: UN starts Central African Republic investigation
Alone in the C.A.R.
No, the French are there, too.
The Washington Post reported that four Osprey aircraft and 150 more Air Force special operations members and airmen would be sent to Uganda.
The aircraft would be based in Uganda —whose military is leading the anti-Kony mission — but will be used in LRA-affected areas of Central African Republic, Congo, and South Sudan, said Caitlin Hayden, spokeswoman for the National Security Council.
Oh, Sudan, too, huh?
Related: 800,000 people have been displaced and 3.2 million are in immediate need of food
They are as bad as Myanmar.
The additional support would enable African forces ‘‘to conduct targeted operations to apprehend remaining LRA combatants,’’ she said.
The deployment of more military personnel will boost the 100 US troops who have been supporting African forces as military advisers since 2011. They are not authorized to engage in direct combat with LRA fighters except in self-defense. The US advisers are assisting about 2,500 African Union troops to chase LRA fighters in a jungle about the size of France.
Uganda’s military praised the deployment of the CV-22 Osprey, a versatile aircraft that can fly like a plane and a helicopter. Its ability to take off and land vertically should make it useful in the heavy jungle areas where the troops are operating.
‘‘These aircraft are very helpful. They enhance our capacity, particularly in the search operations, reconnaissance, airlifts,’’ said Lieutenant Paddy Ankunda, the Ugandan military spokesman.
The LRA is perhaps Africa’s most infamous rebel group, thanks to the efforts of US-based watchdog group Invisible Children that highlighted Kony’s crimes in 2012 in an online video that was widely viewed and urged the international community to put more resources toward ending the LRA threat.
Related: The Kony Kon
Still buying it?
Months later, the African Union announced it was setting up a Uganda-led force to hunt down the LRA in the vast jungle across Central Africa. The LRA, which originated in Uganda in the 1980s as a tribal uprising against the country’s president, is notorious for abducting children, making the boys fight and using the girls as sex slaves.
In 2005 Kony became the first suspect to be indicted by the International Criminal Court on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The LRA appears to be in rapid decline. After it was ousted from Ugandan territory in 2005, the group scattered into parts of Congo and Central African Republic.
There are about 200 LRA fighters still active in the jungle, according to Ugandan military estimates. Agger put the current number of LRA fighters at no more than 500.
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So much for shoving the agenda down their throats.
